I'm in a nostalgic mood, so I watched many old classics chronologically. The last one was Alien, then Predator... Otherwise, I'm a big fan of Star Trek and it's also my theme during my regular visits to Comic Con back home in the Czech Republic. Overall, I love SciFi and maybe I'm weird, but I don't need anything else
I finished watching the second season of Arcane, and I loved it like the first. I also watched War of the Rohirrim in the cinema. Easily the most enjoyable movie of the year for me. It's like others have described it: a very conventional story, but exceptionally executed.
Just watched the first episode of the new Dexter series, Dexter: Original Sin.
I like it better than I did New Blood (which mostly got un-done in the opening few minutes of Original Sin), but it feels so much like a rehash of the flashback scenes in the original, just with new actors playing younger versions of the characters.
There's no development of Dexter, which is what I was hoping for. He's basically just a younger version of the same Dexter that we got in the original series. I thought maybe we'd get an entire season of development of the characters, building up to his first kill. Nope. No character development, no build up. The development of the excellently written characters in the original series is what made it so compelling. Dexter was just a blank slate for them to shine against; and he was phenomenal at it.
I'm pretty disappointed. I guess I'll hang around and see if it gets better.
I like it better than I did New Blood (which mostly got un-done in the opening few minutes of Original Sin), but it feels so much like a rehash of the flashback scenes in the original, just with new actors playing younger versions of the characters.
There's no development of Dexter, which is what I was hoping for. He's basically just a younger version of the same Dexter that we got in the original series. I thought maybe we'd get an entire season of development of the characters, building up to his first kill. Nope. No character development, no build up. The development of the excellently written characters in the original series is what made it so compelling. Dexter was just a blank slate for them to shine against; and he was phenomenal at it.
I'm pretty disappointed. I guess I'll hang around and see if it gets better.
The second season of Squid Game is finally available. I've only watched the first three episodes of season 2, but if the end of episode 3 turns out to be the high point, it's a good high point. If there's a season 3, then I think I know who Player 1 will be.
I'm a bit conflicted with this series, since I feel like it got so much attention just for the sake of it being "so never seen before shocking". But as a fan of horror movies and those very original Battle Royal movies etc... Should I give this a chance or is it just reinventing the wheel?
The entire show is definitely a variation on the same theme as Battle Royal, but the interactions among the characters are what make it so entertaining to me. I was afraid that the second season would be a repeat of the first season, since it's presumably the same game. But so far, it hasn't been. The "Game" is just one player in a bigger game.
The original season wrapped up with the winner of the Squid Game facing off against the game's creator (who without him knowing it at the time, had been his biggest ally, but I won't state why to avoid spoilers), in a passive bigger game where the battle centered on conflicting beliefs about human nature. So far, season two has been exploring that theme, with the previous game winner trying to destroy the entire system by publicly proving what he thinks he proved to the game creator, and the Gamemasters playing games with the "Game" to show him how wrong he is, and the show's writers playing games with the audience. For instance, there's a touching early segment with a terminally ill child who gives a hand drawn picture to a costumed actor. Then we later see the actor predictably do what we've come to expect from the show; except it turns out to be not what we expected.
It's a big risk for a story line, because it can easily collapse under too many tangled threads. But so far, it's been good.
Hmm, maybe I could give it a chance next time we are out of things to watch
Just finished it. The set-up was much better than the payoff. They tried juggling too many balls and dropped some of them.Hmm, maybe I could give it a chance next time we are out of things to watch
i read that Apple are making their streaming service available for free on 4 Jan and 5 Jan, so I implore everyone to go watch Slow Horses if you haven't already. Awesome series full of great actors.
Make a show or movie following a completely different person we have yet to see like take a concept art character give it a different name and tweeked look then build up from there and then maybe a cameo in Orion.
I watched it and I have to say that it's not very good... In my opinion it's even plain bad, sadly
I just finished it. I think Nightmare of the Wolf was better, but I wouldn't say Sirens of the Deep is bad. The story felt simpler and plot twists weren't as unexpected as in Nightmare of the Wolf. But overall I think it's OK.
Yeah, it's an "okayish anime" but as a "Witcher anime", it's bad in my opinion.
I thought I was watching a Disney anime and that's not a compliment... Between the art style, the fact that Geralt became a kind of surhuman ninja who can walk on walls, jump at crazy highs, twirls in the air like a gymnast which is kinda ridiculous and certain parts which are sung... I have a hard time to finish it.
I'm afraid we will have to wait the next Witcher game to finally get some good Witcher content... I'm quite grateful that Edgerunner turned out great